Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Nov
05
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
NEW YORK — It can be a malicious rumor whispered in the hallway, a lewd photo arriving by cell phone, hands groping where they shouldn’t. Added up, it’s an epidemic — student-on-student sexual harassment that is pervasive in America’s middle schools and high schools.
During the 2010-11 school year, 48 percent of students in grades 7-12 experienced some form of sexual harassment in person or electronically via texting, email and social media, according to a major national survey being released Monday by the American Association of University Women.
The harassers often thought they were being funny, but the consequences for their targets can be wrenching, according to the survey. Nearly a third of the...
Read more
Oct
29
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer
NEW YORK — Wal-Mart will shutter its fashion office in Manhattan less than three years after arriving as the retailer shifts its focus back to basic items like socks and jeans, and away from trendier lines of clothing seen at its stores in recent years.
There are 275 people working at the office, set to close on Feb. 1, and spokesman Dave Tovar said Wal-Mart will relocate as many of them as possible to the company headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. The company began speaking with employees in New York early Wednesday, he said.
The senior vice president of Wal-Mart’s U.S. apparel merchandising division, Lisa Rhodes, will stay on through the transition and leave in July. The company promoted executives...
Read more
Oct
28
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By the Associated Press
CHANDLER, Ariz. — An Arizona mother of four has received a hand-delivered letter from a lawyer prohibiting her from setting foot in eight Phoenix-area McDonald’s and threatening her with criminal trespassing charges if she did.
Chandler resident Erin Carr-Jordan has been on a national crusade to clean up fast-food play areas, claiming the pathogens she found in them threaten children’s health. She is also an Arizona State University Instructor.
Carr-Jordan tells The Arizona Republic the incident she believes led to the lawyer’s letter happened during one of her repeated visits to a Gilbert McDonald’s. Carr-Jordan alleges she discovered antibiotic-resistant Staph or MRSA, known to cause potentially...
Read more
Jan
14
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Authorities say seven San Francisco middle school students have been taken to hospitals after apparently mistaking rat poison for candy.
San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Mindy Talmadge says students from the Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School were taken to three hospitals Thursday afternoon after ingesting a blue cube they found atop a filing cabinet.
Talmadge said crews were called to the school after one of the students told a parent about the incident. A teacher later called poison control.
Talmadge said while the children showed no symptoms, and that they were taken to hospitals as a precaution.
School officials say the incident is under investigation....
Read more
Jan
08
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO — Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children.
Children born less than two years after their siblings were considerably more likely to have an autism diagnosis compared to those born after at least three years.
The sooner the second child was conceived the greater the likelihood of that child later being diagnosed with autism. The effect was found for parents of all ages, decreasing the chance that it was older parents and not the birth spacing behind the higher risk.
“That was pretty shocking to us, to be honest,” said senior author Peter Bearman of Columbia University in New...
Read more
Jan
05
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — When tainted peanuts sickened hundreds of people, President Barack Obama joined millions of parents who wanted the government to do a better job of keeping peanut butter and other foods safe for their kids to eat.
On Tuesday, Obama is getting a chance to ease such fears about the food supply.
The president is set to sign a bill that overhauls the food safety system by giving the federal government new powers over inspections at food processing facilities and companies that produce tainted products.
Congress passed the bill to respond to several outbreaks of E. coli and salmonella poisoning in peanuts, eggs and produce in the past few years. The law will be the first major...
Read more
Jan
05
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By the Associated Press
ROCKFORD, Ill. — A northern Illinois couple welcomed their new daughter to the world in the last minute of 2010 — and a twin son in the first minute of 2011.
Ashley Fansler gave birth to Madisen Carin Lewis at 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve in Machesney Park, 85 miles northwest of Chicago. Aiden Everette Lewis was born a minute later, at 12 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
The Rockford Register Star reports that Fansler wasn’t due until the end of January but doctors at Rockford Memorial Hospital scheduled a cesarean section for Friday evening to avoid complications.
The father, Brandon Lewis, says one of the doctors was counting the minutes down before the births. Lewis says it was “definitely the best”...
Read more
Dec
21
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By Pete Basofin, McClatchy Newspapers
Although it’s rare for U.S. women to die of complications in pregnancy, a study by the Centers for Disease Control shows that such deaths are increasing in this country.
Researchers found that between 1998 and 2005, the national pregnancy-related mortality rate was 14.5 deaths per 100,000 live births. In 1986, the rate fell to a low of 7.4 per 100,000 before experiencing a gradual rise. (A pregnancy-related death is considered any death occurring during, or within a year after pregnancy, that is caused by a complication of pregnancy.)
The study doesn’t identify a precise cause for the increase in these maternal deaths. But it notes that in recent years more women of child-bearing age are dealing with obesity...
Read more
Dec
09
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — The FBI has issued a cyber crime alert on a new Barbie doll that comes with a hidden video camera.
Mattel’s Barbie Video Girl has a video camera lens built into its necklace that can record up to 30 minutes of footage to be downloaded on a computer.
Officials warn that it could possibly be used to produce child pornography, but say they don’t have any reported crimes.
The FBI’s Sacramento office issued a report with the warning on the doll last month.
FBI spokesman Steve Dupre says the alert was inadvertently sent to the media but was meant for law enforcement agencies advising them not to overlook the doll during any searches.
A Mattel spokeswoman says the FBI has confirmed no...
Read more
Sep
22
Posted by
Lorain County Moms
By the Associated Press
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Police in southern Oregon say a woman charged with robbing a bank in Grants Pass stopped to pick up her children at school on the way home.
The Grants Pass Daily Courier reported a woman walked into an Umpqua Bank branch shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, handed the teller a note demanding cash, and then rode off in a car driven by a man.
Police say a witness description of the car and license plates led to the home of 37-year-old Erica F. Anderson, who was arrested on robbery and theft charges after returning from picking up her daughters at their elementary school.
Authorities say 19-year-old Joshua K. Deeter Tseu drove the car and was arrested on the same charges.
It was unclear if either has an...
Read more
